140 results found for 'south timbalier'

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  • Fire Breaks Out on Hercules 265 in Gulf of Mexico

    24 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Hercules Offshore today provided updates to the incident aboard jackup drilling rig Hercules 265, a 250′ mat-supported cantilevered unit, operating for Walter Oil & Gas Corporation in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico OCS lease block South Timbalier 220. Late yesterday evening, the natural gas flowing from the well ignited which spread to the rig. The […]

  • Hercules Reports Well Control Incident in U.S. GoM

    24 July 2013
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Hercules Offshore announced that it is experiencing a well control incident on jack-up drilling rig Hercules 265, a 250′ mat-supported cantilevered unit. Efforts are ongoing to regain control of the natural gas well. At this time, all personnel on board have been evacuated and are being transported to a secure location. The rig is currently […]

  • EPL Clinches Five Leases in Central Gulf of Mexico

    26 March 2013

    EPL Oil & Gas, Inc. today announced that it was the high bidder on five leases at the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 227 held last Wednesday, March 20, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana.  The five high bid lease blocks cover a total of 13,892 acres on a net and gross basis and are all located in […]

  • McDermott Nets Megalodon Platform Installation Job in GoM

    21 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance, Project & Tenders

    McDermott International, Inc. announced that one of its subsidiaries was awarded a contract to provide transportation and installation services to Walter Oil & Gas Corporation (“Walter”) for the Megalodon platform destined for South Timbalier Block 311 in the Gulf of Mexico. The project is expected to be included in McDermott’s third quarter 2014 backlog. “McDermott […]

  • Hercules 265 Evacuated After Well Control Incident in U.S. GoM

    24 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    Hercules Offshore announced that it is experiencing a well control incident on jack-up drilling rig Hercules 265, a 250′ mat-supported cantilevered unit. Efforts are ongoing to regain control of the natural gas well. At this time, all personnel on board have been evacuated and are being transported to a secure location. The rig is currently […]

  • OSV damages Gulf of Mexico platform

    26 January 2015
    Exploration & Production

    An offshore support vessel (OSV) Connor Bordelon allided with a gas platform in the Gulf of Mexico on Friday (January 23). The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) confirmed the incident.  The BSEE responded to a damaged unmanned platform in South Timbalier (ST) Block 27 in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 5 miles south of […]

  • Helicopter ditches in U.S. Gulf of Mexico

    12 June 2014

    The Coast Guard was responding to a civilian helicopter with two people aboard, 60 miles south of Terrebonne Bay, Wednesday. Watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector New Orleans received the report at 2:40 p.m., of a downed helicopter, Bell model 206-L4, containing two people aboard near an oil rig in the South Timbalier Block 317. Crewmembers on […]

  • Foster Wheeler Enters U.S. Gulf of Mexico Junction Platform Project

    9 February 2012
    Business & Finance

    Foster Wheeler AG, has been awarded a contract by Discovery Gas Transmission, LLC to provide design, engineering and technical services for a junction platform, facilities and associated pipelines within the Discovery System at South Timbalier 283, in the Gulf of Mexico. The Foster Wheeler contract value, which was not disclosed, will be included in the […]

  • LLOG Experiencing Tremendous Growth, CEO Says

    30 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    LLOG Exploration today provided an update on the status of Deepwater drilling contracts, production at the Who Dat field, development activities at the Marmalard discovery, and its recent Powerball discovery. On April 2, a three-year contract, with an option for an additional year at mutually-agreeable rates, between LLOG Bluewater Holdings, LLC (the joint venture partnership […]

  • Watch Coast Guard in action as oil worker gets a medevac in Gulf of Mexico

    12 June 2023
    Authorities & Government, Business & Finance, Business Developments & Projects, Human Capital, Project & Tenders, Safety

    The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) has medevacked a 33-year-old worker from an oil platform about 23 miles southwest of Port Fourchon, Louisiana.

  • TGS begins 3D survey in US Gulf of Mexico

    21 June 2021
    Business Developments & Projects, Exploration & Production, Infrastructure

    TGS has commenced Sophies Resolve Refocus 3D, an ocean bottom cable (OBC) and narrow azimuth (NAZ) imaging program in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.

  • McDermott lands Megalodon platform installation gig

    21 July 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    McDermott International, Inc. has announced that one of its subsidiaries was awarded a contract to provide transportation and installation services to Walter Oil & Gas Corporation for the Megalodon platform destined for South Timbalier Block 311 in the Gulf of Mexico. The project is expected to be included in McDermott’s third quarter 2014 backlog. “McDermott is […]

  • Contango Restarts Production at Vermilion 170 Well (USA)

    14 June 2013

    Contango Oil & Gas, a Houston-based, independent natural gas and oil company, announced today that the Company’s Vermilion 170 well in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico has resumed production and as of June 12, 2013, was producing approximately 9.7 million cubic feet equivalent per day (“Mmcfed”), net to Contango. This well had been shut-in since late […]

  • Danos spruces up Shell’s Olympus tension leg platform

    6 December 2017

    Danos has completed a painting and coating project on the Shell-operated Olympus tension leg platform (TLP) in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • W&T Offshore spuds Gulf Of Mexico well

    20 October 2017
    Exploration & Production, Project & Tenders

    Houston-based oil and gas company W&T Offshore has started drilling the ST 224 #1 well within the South Timbalier 224 (ST 224) lease in the Gulf of Mexico.  W&T Offshore is the operator of the ST 224 lease with a 39% stake and Otto Energy is its partner with a 25% interest. According to Otto’s statement on Friday, the […]

  • TGS in New Ocean Bottom Projects in Gulf of Mexico

    29 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    TGS announces the first two ocean bottom projects in the shelf region of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico under its collaboration agreement with FairfieldNodal. The Calypso Full Azimuthal Nodal (FAN) survey is located in the Eugene Island protraction area and will cover 136 shelf blocks. Historical production from Upper and Lower Miocene reservoirs will be […]

  • McMoRan Apparent High Bidder for 14 GOM Blocks (USA)

    28 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    McMoRan Exploration Co. announced the results of its participation in the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 216/222 held last week by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in New Orleans, Louisiana. McMoRan was the apparent high bidder on a total of 14 lease blocks on the outer Continental Shelf of the Gulf of […]

  • W&T Offshore hires ex-Hercules rig to drill Gulf of Mexico prospect

    25 July 2017
    Business & Finance, Exploration & Production

    Houston-based oil and gas company W&T Offshore has contracted a jack-up rig previously owned by the bankrupt driller Hercules Offshore to drill the South Timbalier 224 (ST 224) gas/condensate prospect in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.  W&T Offshore is the operator of the license with a 39 percent stake. Its now partner Otto farmed into the […]

  • TGS to start two ocean bottom projects in Gulf of Mexico

    29 September 2014
    Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders

    Norwegian TGS has announced the first two ocean bottom projects in the shelf region of the U.S. Gulf of Mexico under its collaboration agreement with FairfieldNodal. The Calypso Full Azimuthal Nodal (FAN) survey is located in the Eugene Island protraction area and will cover 136 shelf blocks. Historical production from Upper and Lower Miocene reservoirs […]

  • Top News of the Week of July 22 – July 28, 2013

    29 July 2013
    Business & Finance

    1. Diver Killed in Accident at Riffgat Offshore Wind Farm (Germany) A British diver was killed while performing underwater work at the Riffgat offshore wind farm, located north of Borkum in the North Sea, between Friday 12 July and Saturday 13 July. The 26-year-old was buried in 20-meter water depth by a concrete mat, Die […]

  • Black Elk Energy Sells Non-Core Assets Gulf of Mexico

    9 April 2013
    Business & Finance

    Black Elk Energy Offshore Operations, LLC, an independent oil and gas company headquartered in Houston, Texas announced yesterday the completion of sale of four non-core properties to a third party. The sale consisted of one non-operated and three operated fields in the Eugene Island, Ship Shoal and South Timbalier areas with net production of approximately […]

  • Six New Leases for EPL in Central GoM Lease Sale (USA)

    21 June 2012
    Business & Finance

    Energy Partners, Ltd., a U.S. based oil and gas exploration and production company announced was the high bidder on six leases at the Central Gulf of Mexico Lease Sale 216/222 held yesterday in New Orleans, Louisiana. The six high bid lease blocks cover a total of 27,148 acres on a net and gross basis and […]

  • Amberjack Debottleneck Project Delivered

    21 November 2016
    Business & Finance, Operations & Maintenance

    Amberjack Pipeline Company (Amberjack), a joint venture between Shell Pipeline Company LP (SPLC) and Chevron Pipe Line Company (CPL), informed that the debottleneck project in the Gulf of Mexico has been completed. The project installed a new 33 mile (53.1 kilometers), 24-inch pipeline segment from the Green Canyon block 19 platform (GC-19) to the South Timbalier […]

  • W&T Offshore observes ‘strong wet gas shows’ in Gulf of Mexico well

    29 November 2017
    Exploration & Production

    W&T Offshore has encountered strong wet gas shows while drilling the ST 224 #1 well in the Gulf of Mexico.

  • USA: Energy XXI Reports Significant Progress in GoM Shallow Waters Operations

    23 June 2010
    Business & Finance

    Energy XXI has successfully installed and placed in service a bi-directional pipeline lateral between its Main Pass 61 and 73 fields offshore Louisiana, restoring more than 2,000 barrels of oil equivalent (BOE) per day of production that had been shut-in on April 6 by a rupture of the third-party-owned Cypress Pipe Line. The new lateral […]